Electric Ladyland: Women and Rock Culture

by Lisa Renee Rhodes

Book Overview

With the explosion of rock music in the mid-1960s, women arrived--as performers, critics, and fans. While operating in radically different ways within rock culture, female musicians, journalists, and groupies rewrote women's roles on and off the stage in the 1960s and 1970s.

Electric Ladyland is a social and cultural history of this formative era in rock and roll, examining how the changing roles of women were intertwined with the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081221899X
• ISBN13: 9780812218992
• Release Date: February 2005
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 310 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

A Must for all Rock-n-Rollers, or general pop culture enthusiasts

Born in 1959, I was going through my sexual liberation and gender identity issues as a teen in the 1970s. As a music lover and ultimate fan of rock, my "bible" was Rolling Stone Magazine. Even though I read it cover to cover every month, I never felt completely linked and connected to it. I couldn't put my finger on it. This book explains why perfectly. Jann Weiner was a classic male chauvinist pig, and may still be today. Even though the revolution was happening in the 60s and 70s, he was as old school boy network as they came, and held women down whenever possible, it seems. This book is not all about Weiner, but about so much more. This book has informed me immensely on the role of women in the subculture of rock and roll. I relate to the groupies she writes about, and the virtues of such writers as Lillian Roxon and Ellen Willis, as well as the author herself. My groupie experiences were so similar to those of Margaret Moser, because I was in a smaller town (Nashville) and was able to get to artists on a much more uncrowded level, and be friendly with them as an "equal" of sorts because of my skills as a photographer. I'll leave the more academic reviews for others more eloquent, but I LOVED THIS BOOK. I feel empowered and energized to proudly let my freak groupie flag FLY! Great book, Lisa!!!